Collection Connections: Arts & Humanities, Critical Thinking & U.S. History teaching ideasBorn in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical RecordTimely Connections: James Madison & SlaveryLearning from the Source: Close Reading in Service of a CausePrimary … [Read more...]

Below you will find Library of Congress resources curated by TPS-Barat that relate to National History Day 2016 topic ideas from the Chicago Metro History Education Center. This set specifically focuses on the arts and culture but all topic ideas are related to the 2016 NHD theme: Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History. NOTE: historic newspaper coverage is from 1836-1922.Exchanging Worlds, Exploring and Encountering Empire: World’s Fair Columbian ExpositionThe 1893 World Columbian … [Read more...]

This collection contains moving and still images, highlighting the dancer’s early explorations as an anthropologist observing movement types and dance forms in Haiti, Trinidad, Martinique, and Jamaica as well as Dunham performing and teaching.Collection resourcesImages
Videos
Notes on Dunham's Work
Katherine Dunham Timeline
Katherine Dunham: A Life in Dance articleAdditional Dunham resourcesA Life in Dance: Dunham Created New Forms in Choreography Library of Congress … [Read more...]

The Teaching with Library of Congress blog provides some great tips for finding articles in the Chronicling America Historic Newspaper Collections and provides some teaching ideas as well. Be sure to check out, too, the following learning activity: Comparing Reports: Battle of Little Bighorn.Below is a list of topic guides by subject, each of which includes a list of important dates, search strategies, and sample articles. You can also scroll through these topics by date range or by … [Read more...]

Voting & Elections in Early America

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Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress, since 2004 TPS-Barat has provided free, engaging, inquiry-based learning materials that use Library primary sources to foster understanding and application of civics, literacy, history, math, science, and the arts.The mission of the national Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program is to: build of the Library’s educational initiatives; provide content that promotes the effective educational of the Library’s resources; and offer access to and promote sustained use of the Library’s educational
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